I’ve mentioned the Father’s Day rap that I wrote and performed which helped me master my rage flashbacks. It still serves as a great example of what creativity can do for our healing. But something never occurred to me until writing Anger and the Fight Response. That painful flashback year was acting as shock therapy …
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The Branches of Healing shows how we can open neuropathways. Doing so helps us work through the emotion overwhelm. This tree also represents the right side (creativity) and left side (logic) of the brain. The more pathways we use, the better we are at managing our flashbacks. Even mastery is possible. Using the tree analogy, …
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Theater is the most overlooked branch of creativity, especially when using it to work through our trauma. There are many good reasons it goes unnoticed, of course. For one thing, drama therapists are not available in every city. Another reason is that we don’t all have immediate access to a stage. Lastly, both social anxiety …
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Writing for the stage is how you get to merge memory and fantasy into mastery over a traumatic event. Once you write a script, you have the option to take it one step further and unlock your inner thespian. If you can visualize a stage, I can walk you through how to write a script …
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Grounding is a major tool for working out of dissociation (Master Toolbox 1), lowering stress, and managing our flashbacks (Trauma Glossary 2). It calms us by using our five senses to become aware of our present environment. What is it you see? Hear? Touch? Smell? Taste? When we’re working with art or music, (and musical …
Art and Musical EMDR: How to Use Them for Grounding Read More »
Chances are, you’ve heard of the confrontation letter you never send or venting out your frustrations to an empty chair. What do they have in common? They are both old school methods for “telling off” the person who hurt you when confronting them in person is pointless. They are a means of gaining both closure …
Confrontation Letter and Empty Chair: How to Mix it Up for Closure Read More »
The two most effective treatments for CPTSD are EMDR and Somatic Work. What do the two have in common? Both are part of the Bottom-Up Therapies which are new and innovative methods for treating trauma. They help us contradict or master how we felt in our original trauma as we are processing what happened to …
Somatic Work for Flashback Management: It’s Better Than EMDR Read More »
